Editing Gifu Castle

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'''Gifu Castle''', formerly known as '''Inabayama Castle''',<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref> is a {{Wiki|Japanese castle}} in the city of {{Wiki|Gifu}}, [[Japan]].

In the [[Sengoku period]], Inabayama Castle was a stronghold for the {{Wiki|Saitō clan}} that ruled over the {{Wiki|Mino province}}. [[Oda Nobunaga]], warring against clan leader and his father-in-law [[Saitō Dōsan]], managed to weak the clan through diplomacy and bribery of the Saitō generals, enough to allow for a siege and subsequent conquest of the castle in 1567, which he renamed Gifu Castle.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/> Having established himself in Gifu, Oda Nobunaga received many guests at the castle, including [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] historian [[Luís Fróis]]<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref> and then-claimant to the position of [[shōgun]], [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki]], who gave Nobunaga pretext to march on Kyoto in 1568.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>

==Appearances==
*''[[Echoes of History]]'' {{Mo}}

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